r/lostgeneration • u/Affectionate-Fix4671 • 1d ago
This is how Americans live as they spend Trillions on wars.
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u/FUNCYBORG 1d ago
one thing that is good, you cant put the toothpaste back in the tube about americas relationship to israel anymore. everyone knows now, and you arent called anti semetic for pointing out the obvious weird relationship.
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u/notwiggl3s 1d ago
The problem is the Nazis like Israel for some reason? It's fucking wild what's happening, who even knows
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u/Wyjdya 1d ago
Because a lot of them are religious psychopaths. They believe by supporting Israel, they can use them to start a war. They believe this will usher in the end times
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u/Wrong-Breakfast-7512 1d ago
My ex inlaws - they are "messianic" and believe the dome of the rock must come down so the end times can start. They salivate for it, it's genuinely scary. I'm grateful I'm an international border away now, they are bad angry people who started tea party and are rabid Maga now.
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u/Necessary-handle-367 1d ago
Nazis use the tyranny of Israel as propaganda to promote their ideology, while simultaneously wanting to implement a similar form of militarized genocidal apartheid state in their own countries.
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u/BroodyBird12345 1d ago
The Republicans don't support Palestine lol
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u/countervalent 1d ago
It's the same reason white supremacists supported the American Colonization Society's plan to relocate free Black people to Africa. In that case, well-meaning white abolitionists thought it was the best thing for those people. Kinda like how some white, well-meaning l*berals feel about Israel by saying "but it's the safest place for them to go!" while the neo-nazi's echo happily "Yeah! Far away from us!"
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u/NocturneSapphire 14h ago
Has everyone not known about the relationship between the US and Israel for decades?
The thing that needs to change is that Americans need to quit viewing Israel as "the good guys" just because it's called Israel. They aren't God's chosen. They can't bring about the apocalypse through their existence or their suffering or whatever it is that end-times Christians believe.
They're just a country with a fascist leader who has managed to spin up a hugely successful lobbying machine in the US.
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u/OccuWorld 1d ago
to be clear, Americans do not spend trillions on wars, they spend billions on taxes under penalty of incarceration while multinational corporations use that money and military to loot global resources. other countries are also used. the global north is given debt. the global south is given death.
the corporate war dynamic.
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u/ZootSuitRiot33801 1d ago
It's very obvious by now the system benefits the interests of these powerful pedophiles and warmongers with deep pockets, NOT freedom, liberty, and a better future for all. These parasitic poor excuses for humanity wouldn't be able to get away with so much, if us common folk who care would do whatever we could to stand together in defiance against these authorities and their Epstein class puppeteers, (foreign and domestic, private and institutional,) which uses its death cult and growing AI industry to manipulate and control us. They all should be punished and left behind to rot, while the rest of us go for something better that actually prioritizes people and the planet.
However, if there's any hope in ever achieving such, we need real supportive community-based bedrock for alternatives that provide relative safety, which many common folk can fall back on, to commit to any effective action longterm.
Collecting a bunch of valuable information on organizing and action from different redditors over time, I created a post of suggestions HERE that could possibly prove to be of some help in getting it started ASAP.
If you don’t live in the US, yet you know others who are and want to do something, please share the information. My country people live the closest to a major root of this global cancer, so we're going to need as many on board and informed as possible, if we commoners hope to achieve anything
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u/paturner2012 1d ago
"forced to pay into a system that spends"*
Getting real tired of getting lumped in with the same small group of ultra wealthy people actively fighting against my neighbors and my well-being.
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u/No_Smoke7903 1d ago
The people who supposedly represent those people do alright for themselves - stock market's been a rollercoaster - but I'm sure when they get their billion they'll finally be content & magically start giving a shit
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u/Breadles_the_Bread 1d ago
Israel is what it us due to it and the US being a big muscle in the western military (war) industrial complex. It's not that hard to understand, especially after the massive failure in Iran, why the US doesn't want to give up it's favorite lab/testing grounds.
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u/its_the_smell 22h ago
Anyone in America having a child should be well aware that they could very easily end up somewhere like here or even worse. I’ve known people who lived in poverty even with college degree.
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u/Ghetto_Jawa 1d ago
Most of these homeless are veterans that we put in harms way and then turned our back on them after they returned.
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u/ExpeditionXR650R 1d ago
Americans love to say they’re good people. But these are their priorities.
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u/NaryusLustyMaid 14h ago
Yes. But to be fair, just about every country fancies themselves as the “good guys” in whatever conflict they are involved in.
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u/ZootSuitRiot33801 1d ago edited 17h ago
Basically it's the "good German" situation again, except at least the Germans could lean on an excuse that there wasn't precedent at the time. A lot of my fellow country folk don't have that excuse
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u/ShadePrime1 1d ago
"wasnt a precedent"...the precedent is...all of human history...people have always acted like this upper class nobles extract resources from their pesants and mobilize them for their own means and gains.. or Roman politicians sending their legions off to war only for when the legions get home the soldiers find their politicans took their land and homes from them demoting them out of the group that gets to vote for their own economic gain after they sacrificed years of their life to the legion...or pretty much any warlord ever
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u/Phenganax 1d ago
What’s wild is there was a Star Trek deep space 9 episode where they talk about the 2020’s being rife with homeless and general civil unrest…. Well (gestures broadly at everything) they weren’t too far off. I just want to skip over the nuclear war and go straight to aliens touching down and us building a better future.
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u/laylajoy20 1d ago
yeah the whole israel thing got exposed bad, now everyone sees where the money erally goes lol
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u/BroodyBird12345 1d ago
Yeah the 40 billion to Palestine to fund them only for them to do this kind of was a colossal waste of money
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u/FungusGnatHater 1d ago
So you want America to abandon Ukraine? Easy to write the bumper sticker, not so easy to complete the thought.
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u/apply75 1d ago
I live in America...I don't have mental issues, im not addicted to drugs and I live in a nice apt in the one of the best cities in the world. I'm in a democratic state so they cover my medical expenses and I always have work because well it's the city. No debt, couple vacas a year, couple nice dinners a month and long walks for lunch and dinner... Life is good. Don't let these Iran bot posts tell you differently
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u/ToothpickTequila 15h ago
1% of your population is in prison. You get only 10 days holiday a year. A lot of you don't even get sick pay. Waitresses need tips to live. The number 1 reason for bankruptco is medical bills. Children need to have school shooter drills in school.
It's a terrible country.
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u/TheMajesticJoeJoe 1d ago
Not all Americans. About 0.22%.
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u/Fun-Gas1809 1d ago
There are numerous Americans that are quite literally one paycheck away from homelessness, it’s a lot more people than anyone can imagine
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u/MrBwnrrific 1d ago
Any number when we are spending an ungodly amount of money on a boondoggle war that is actively making everything worse is unconscionable
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u/narwaffles 1d ago
So it would be cheaper to fix
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u/TheMajesticJoeJoe 1d ago
Exactly. But money seems to make people to not give a shit. Especially about other people.
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u/BroodyBird12345 1d ago
Palestine has received more in unconditional aid than Israel lmfao. You're 25 times more likely to be a millionaire in the USA than you are to be homeless.
You can always try to improve things for people, and should aim to, but y'all should know better by now than to follow for blatant Russian bot propaganda lmao. Slava Ukraini, Free Israel
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u/ToothpickTequila 15h ago
Palestine has received more aid than Israel?! Lmfao. What a lie.
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u/BroodyBird12345 1h ago
Reality’s a bitch ain’t it haha, you can stick your head in the sand or acknowledge reality, already know what you’ll do tbf. Only way to be Pro-Palestine atp is to completely ignore every piece of evidence
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